Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hallelujah Trail is bigger but not better than any of the recent comedies that are supposed to milk laughs from the sacred cows of the Hollywood western. The sheer bulk of the opus is one clue to its failure. Given a plot with several droll twists, Director John Sturges (The Great Escape, Bad Day at Black Rock) lets his camera roam freely over the Cinerama landscape, too often striving for epic effects when antic effects are needed...
...modern plays depend on banter between the on sustain the interest -- and Pinter is writing such dialogue. a play depends solely burlesque interchanges, some boring -- and even like Waiting for to drag in the second the amusement of this to wane. All of however, contain element of suspense, sheer terror which attention even when actual action is at a standstill...
...championship Grand Prix races-more than anybody else, including Britain's fabled Stirling Moss, who spent eight years winning 14, and Argentina's five-time World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio, who had 16 when he quit racing at the age of 47. Says Moss: "In terms of sheer native ability, Jim probably has more than any champion in history." Lotus Designer Colin Chapman puts it even more emphatically: "Jim Clark is the greatest racing driver the world has ever seen...
...sheer pyrotechnics and power, there had never been a rocket launch like it. From Complex 40 at Cape Kennedy last week, Air Force Titan IIIC, the heaviest and most powerful rocket system ever launched, blasted off in a mighty torrent of flame and smoke, and with a deafening roar soared out of sight. Though U.S. hopes to close the rocket gap with the Soviet Union rode on the new Titan, the competition this time was not so much international as it was between solid rocket fuels and liquids...
...doubt about it, The Beggar's Opera has arrived. But I think it left behind the spontaneous surprise, the wonderful moments in which a House production, saying faster and faster "I think I can," succeeds through sheer effort. Moments like Joel Martin's sly, smiling entrance were lost last night...